terrycarriel in eBay Copyright Theft
terrycarriel, of "harpursville, NY, United States", stole our 1974 Gold Krugerrand photograph to use on eBay, and omitted to tell buyers that the image was not of the coin he was selling. Totally dishonest!
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When we wrote this page, this eBay member's feedback was 3; with 100% positive according to eBay.
Sample Listing
1974 Krugerrand 1 Oz. Fine Gold Coin
This is a 1974 Krugerannd, weighing one Troy Ounce. I was given this as payment for a job, but need the actual cash for this item. If you want to see any more pictures, or have any questions, feel free to email my son at mitchellwlurie@gmail.com, as he knows more about this kind of thing than myself. The $5 shipping is for insurance purposes. Thanks and happy bidding:c)
What's Wrong?
We invest a great deal of time, effort, and cost into creating some of the best photographic coin images on the internet. We strongly object when lazy and dishonest people decide to use them without a by your leave or thanks, doing so in competition with us.
Copyright theft is dishonest. We recommend you avoid doing business with dishonest dealers.
This particular eBay seller not only stole our image of the reverse of a 1974 Gold Krugerrand, he used it to sell his own coin on eBay. He did not seem to think it was worth mentioning to potential buyers that the high quality photographs of near mint condition coins were not his own photographs, and not the same coins as he was offering for sale. This is almost certainly illegal in the UK under the Trade Description Act, although it appears to happen on a daily basis on eBay.
It's possible he is ignorant of such fine points, or just plain ignorant.
It is always possible, even likely, that sellers who steal photographs do not own a similar coin, and have the intention to totally defraud potential buyers.
The vendor is not only cheating us by stealing our copyright images, he is fraudulently or ignorantly misleading and deceiving all potential buyers. Gaining pecuniary advantage by deception is the definition of fraud.
Price
The seller was asking a starting price of $800 for his coin.
eBay Guilty of Negligence or Complicity
We will be reporting this example of copyright abuse using our standard Statutory Declaration via the eBay VeRO programme, and wait to see if they chose to action or ignore our report. We look forward to taking legal action against eBay for their negligence and / or complicity if they fail to take down the offending material promptly.
Double Stupid or Double Stubborn?
We did report the above listing, which eBay removed. The stupid idiot decided to repeat his listing, still using one of our photographs. It happens more frequently than one would expect, leading us to believe that eBay are negligent in explaining copyright abuse to their members, and to believe that eBay are implicit co-conspirators in this abuse.
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